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2y ago

Looking for cool communities?

Some people have been asking which communities they should join first, so I posted some remote communities you can subscribe to on the sidebar on the homepage :)

Tech → [email protected]
News → [email protected]
Gaming → [email protected]
Memes → [email protected]
Privacy → [email protected]
FOSS → [email protected]
Monero → [email protected]
Music → [email protected]
Books → [email protected]
LGBT → [email protected]
Nature → [email protected]
Sports → [email protected]
Programming → [email protected]

Find another cool community? Leave a comment :)

There's also this universal community search tool you can try using. If you find a community, just copy its URL and paste it in /search to subscribe to it here. This just goes to show that while there might not be many local communities here on lemmy.one yet, the beauty of the fediverse means that doesn't matter!

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I'm here from reddit, and thank you for these recommendations. Time for my neuroplasticity to kick in so I can learn how all this works.
- Also here from Reddit. Lemmy actually feels like how Reddit *used *to feel in its early years, i.e. fresh community with fresh ideas. Love it!

Just wanted to say, thanks for hosting this instance! I'm a reddit refuge and this Lemmy instance has been really straightforward on how to get started.

Time to wait for the cat ones
- [email protected]
  
  https://lemmy.one/c/[email protected] you mean?

🪴 Plants
Houseplants [email protected]
What's this Plant? [email protected]
🏺 Archaeology & Related
Archaeology [email protected]
Anthropology [email protected]
Folklore, Myths, Legends, & Fairy Tales [email protected]
🌎 Geography
Geography [email protected]
Biodiversity [email protected]
Earth Science/Geosciences [email protected]
Geospatial [email protected]
Historic(al) Map Porn [email protected]
Palaeoecology [email protected]
🔬 Science
Science Communication [email protected]
Ya'll gonna have to nerd out with me now. 😎

I appreciate you taking the time to share! I’ve only messed with Mastodon briefly and the fediverse is a little challenging to navigate at first (in my opinion).
I’ve been a lurker on the subreddit for ages and when I saw your post I decided it was time to check Lemmy out. Thanks for taking the time to set up an instance to keeps the community alive as Reddit implodes. Hopefully this works out or at least can act as a temporary home until we can figure out what is next.
- yes, very much appreciated!

I think the reddit hug of love is affecting things today on the 12th.
Just a general question, on a mobile device is using your browser or an app the better experience? And if using an app is Jaebra the one most people use?
- Was just wondering about that. Jerboa pushed a major update today so I thought it was that, but on desktop I am getting 403's and timeout galore today. Just try to be patient - growing the platform is a GOOD thing, but real people host these instances in most cases, and fixes take resources!
- I'm actually impressed it seems to be holding up rather well from what I'm seeing. Is there anywhere to view the uptick in traffic?
- I prefer the browser to apps personally, this is actually one of the main reasons I like Lemmy over Reddit and it's unusable mobile view. You'll find plenty of mobile app users here too and it sounds like it works fine, I'll just caution that some (all?) of them sound like they're feature-incomplete, so if you ever think something is missing from Lemmy, double-check on the website first, because it might just not be added to the app yet.
  
  Yeah, most of them are still in Alpha. It's fun to see them grow and change with each update, but you are correct that many features are either broken/incomplete or just missing from them at this point. They're doing a terrific job with Jerboa, for anyone looking for an android client. It's very usable!

Theres some sciencey ones on Mander.xyz :
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Mander has a list that is really long of many different disiplines so I just grabbed the ones that I thought would of intrest
A version of r/nostupidquestions: [email protected]
- Have you seen a good general math one yet?
  
  Self replying to say: I just joined [email protected]

I've also found this post to be really helpful:
The growing list of subreddits going to be dark, but these are Lemmy or /kbin equivalents
- What does 30+M, 20+M, etc mean, subscribers?
  
  I think thats the number of subs that the subreddit had.
  
  Yes. "30+M" means "over 30 million subscribers".

I was going down the universal search tool list, subscribing to the communities that I was interested in, and I ran into an issue trying to sub to some of the communities. Thankfully I was able to quickly find the answer - anything that is on the block list under https://lemmy.one/instances you are not able to subscribe to from this instance.
- Glad to see that Lemmygrad is on the blocklist.

[email protected]
We're open for all!~

Work Reform & Unionizing! - [email protected]

Thanks for the great list and comments! Has anyone found communities for any of these?:
onebag
barefoot(running)shoes
bodyweightfitness/calisthenics
degoogle
minimalism
lifehacks
gtd(Getting things done)
- Onebag has been created! https://wayfarershaven.eu/c/onebag
  
  Link should be createde relative with servername in the format:
  [communityName](/c/[email protected])
  So linking to Onebag would be: Onebag
- Barefoot has been created. Feel free and welcome to add. Greetings from a fellow barefooter.
  
  Hopefully you don't get any foot fetish weirdos in there.
- There is a degoogle one, I think it's [email protected]
- I wish someone would start a minimalism community.

I am using the Jerboa app for Lemmy, and I am able to subscribe to communities via the search tab. How do I then view posts from my subscribed communities within the Jerboa app? Anyone know?
Not sure if I am using the app right...
Edit: looks like updating the app fixed it. Subscriptions now showing up in the left menu.

Glad I figured out how to log in. Can’t wait to join the fun!

Does anyone know of any communities for pigeons or capybaras (or tbh any other weird-but-cute critters)?
Edit: adding some as I find them:
https://lemmy.world/c/opossums
https://possumpat.io/c/possums
- I love how oddly specific this is. Not found one yet but hopefully one will pop up. I do follow a Tumblr specifically about pigeons though
  
  wait what's the tumblr??? 👀
- Start an ugly cute community! Lol. Refuge for all critters that are weird and not widely accepted as cute lil guys
  
  Sadly the instance I joined doesn't let you create new communities. Though I suppose it might make sense to shop around a bit now that all the servers are no longer melting.

https://lemmy.one/c/privacyguides

Avoid beehaw
- What don't you like about it? I find Beehaw pretty great. The only thing I could think of is that they've defederated some of the larger instances, but it's understandable given their content philosophy and the current state of moderation tools on Lemmy (really terrible).
- Why?
  
  They've defederated over 400 instances including lemmy.world, they want centralization

Should this be edited to remove Beehaw now that they have de-federated?
- AFAIK beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Not lemmy.one at the moment
  
  Did not realize this, thanks! 👍
- They are only de-federated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
  Lemmy.one is still federated with those two and beehaw.org
  That means it has no impact on us at all, afaik. I'm no pro but I just made a new account, after having a beehaw one, on this instance specifically to see if I could still see everything on all three, and I can.
  
  It has an impact - you can't see posts or replies on beehaw communities by people from lemmy.world, even if we're federated with all of them. Only people from lemmy.world can see those (but they can't see anyone else's).

Join us for all your sports talk over at https://fanaticus.social! We've got communities for all the major sports and their teams.
I also spent the past week forking the popular game day bot, redball, in order to bring game bots to lemmy! There are still a couple of kinks I'm working out but I've begun rolling them out to the teams' communities, starting with the baseball communities.
Check out:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
And all the teams-specific communities!
- Is there a community for language learners? More specifically I am interested in learning Swedish.
  
  I think you replied to the wrong comment. My instance hosts communities for sports :)

@jonah - would you be willing to link mander.xyz to our community? They have a lot of science-based subs that look interesting. Thanks
- There should be no problem joining their communities, just paste the URL for any of them into the box on https://lemmy.one/search
  
  And the url to them shows up if you click on the community name, then Sidebar.

For all things Futurama https://lemmy.world/c/futurama
- Beautiful, that k you so much

Hi! Does anyone know any good communities about the following topics:
-longboarding
-possum pictures and/or possum memes
- Dude, I don't want to make any assumptions here, but I get the feeling [email protected] can help you out!
  
  Damn, they're right below me, too! Worth a shot...

Does anyone know if you can hide posts in Jerboa? This post and a lemmy.one welcome post are pinned at the top of my feeds, and they take up a lot of room visually. I'd also like to hide posts I've already seen, as on smaller communities I only want to see the occasional new posts, not see the same post from 3 days ago every time.
- Go to your user settings and uncheck "show read posts", I just recently found it so I dont know how it works exactly, but im assuming once you open a post it will be considered read, and hidden on mexr refresh
  
  Thank you, that worked! Although I would prefer to be able to manually hide any posts that I don't want to see as some posts do have repeat value - but I suppose I can just comment on them or save them (I presume?) for reference.

For those who missed /r/gamedeals and /r/buildapcsales while browsing lemmy
https://lemmit.online/c/buildapcsales
https://lemmit.online/c/gamedeals
It pulls in posts from the reddit subs.

Much appreciated! Hopefully this really takes off.

How can I create some for lemmy.one?
- See a post regarding community creation on the instance lemmy.one. For example, on lemmy.ml, you have a button at the top of the page beside Create Post to create communities. That is not the case as of now for lemmy.one.

I'm late to getting games so I was very happy to find https://sh.itjust.works/c/patientgamers with how patientgamers was one my favorite communities back on reddit.

Does anyone have recommendations for communities on camping, hiking, and backpacking? Much appreciated.

Any communities for capitalism? Yes, I am a capitalist, dont murder me please
- https://lemmy.ml/c/pro_capitalism
  Closest I found

https://lemmy.world/c/skywind
Skywind is officially on lemmy. They are Skyrim mod group that is doing a full conversion mod of Morrowind.

Thanks you, subbed to a lot of them. The more content and more posts, the better. :)

Can somebody recommend me a community for people with cPTSD or abusive parents?

Thanks to this list, I saved a minute.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a videos community?
- The only one I've found so far is this:
  [email protected]

I've setup an instance focused on some niche topics and hobbies, there's not much there yet but here they are if anyone wants!
FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv
Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie
Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports
Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam
Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek
- Hey, I'm looking for a community with possum pics and memes, like either r/possums or r/possummemes type content
  I can't help but notice you have "possum" in your name. Do you have any possum related communities?
  
  We do now! I think it'd certainly fit with the niche communities we've made so far. No content yet, but feel free to post some stuff: https://possumpat.io/c/possums
- There is an existing star trek topic thing I found in search. Is there a way to merge them? This is the one thing I'm going to be worried about is fragmentation of topics across instances.
  
  Right now, not really.
  This was also an issue on reddit tbh - several subreddits would spring up for multiple topics, like how there was r/gaming and r/games. Over time, I'm sure some instances will become the "default" for a given topic, and others will become defunct. Imo, this is a good thing. It's a pretty healthy way to grow communities and avoid lemmy.ml dominating every topic.

If anyone else is missing Breaddit as much as I, [!bread] ([email protected]) (I think, bear with me as it's my first time trying to link to a community) seems like a good place to start.
Is this link better? https://lemmy.ml/c/bread
- Second link works fine! the first doesnt
- If you link it like this: Bread
  it will be load that community on the user's own instance, so they can just hit subscribe instead of having to search for it back on their own instance.
  [Bread](/c/[email protected])

Thank you for this. It's a nice starting point.

Where are my fellow C programmers? And those who prefer Basic ( qb64 and Gambas welcome too)?
- This, but data scientists!
  
  There's also [email protected] , over at programming.dev, which is a software engineering/prorgramming/computer science focused instance.
- I took a look around over at programming.dev, but couldn't find a C-specific community. Although we do have these (semi-) related communities:
  [email protected]
  [email protected]
  ~~You can also request new communities in [email protected] .~~ Oh man, I was totally wrong. Check out [email protected] !
  
  Thanks! I have joined c_lang!

Are there any UK-specific communities?
- Did you find [email protected]?
  
  Oh great! Oh wait, it's r/UnitedKingdom not r/CasualUK... I'll pass, thanks
- There's a UK-specific instance: lemmy.org.uk
  So far the only community looks to be [email protected] but I expect there'll be more soon.

Is there a community for soccer?
- There's one here, but I don't seem to be able to subscribe to it. https://lemmy.ml/c/soccer
  
  search for [email protected] and then you can subscribe.. (I just did this)

Memmy for iOS makes it super easy to find and join communities. Highly recommended.

Any community similar to r/PublicFreakout?

There are several communities I can't find though Lemmy.one. One of those are every feddit.dk community. Is that a Lemmy.one problem, or the other communities?
- I've had the same issue, could be lemmy.one blocking some of those instances or vice versa. I wonder if there's an aggregator that gathers posts from multiple communities across multiple instances.

Guitar --> [email protected]
US Major League Rugby --> [email protected]

Got a great little gardening community over at [email protected] and we’re giving away free seeds to anyone who joins the instance !

This has been an extremely helpful list. I could use a community to join for professional wrestling, I.e. AEW and WWE. Thanks in advance all, and its nice to join you!
P.S. One for Marvel Snap would be nice as well. I’d be glad to take a shot at creating it if there is any interest.

Thank you for this. The community search tool link is very helpfull.

I found https://lemmy.ml/c/horror, a tiny community. Can anyone recommend more horror communities?
Also, I'm so excited to be here! Everyone seems a little bit nicer. I hope we continue to grow and that the overall kindness sticks around. I saw a lot of the civility going out the window at Reddit over the last couple of years and it was disappointing. (Edgelords suck.)

Monero moved to...
monero.town

https://lemmy.one/c/privacyguides

[email protected] - A community for people who write or enjoy reading HFY themed fiction.
What is HFY?
While traditional science fiction often presents humans as vulnerable masses seeking refuge from menacing aliens or as feeble beings overshadowed by aliens with superior logic, strength or empathy. HFY disrupts these archetypes by challenging the norm.
In the world of HFY, humanity is bestowed with exceptional qualities, giving rise to a sense of optimism and empowerment within the reader. It seeks to uplift and inspire, demonstrating the potential of human greatness and the capacity for overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds.
- Would Star Trek be an example of HFY?
  
  Yeah, Star Trek is an example of HFY. Star Trek fan five are welcome too.

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🪴 Plants

🏺 Archaeology & Related

🌎 Geography

🔬 Science